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November 1: All Saints' Day (Western Christianity); Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)
Goaltender mask worn
by Jacques Plante
by Jacques Plante
- 1503 – Giuliano della Rovere was elected pope, taking the name Julius II in emulation of Julius Caesar.
- 1611 – The first recorded performance of Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven years after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello, held in the same building.
- 1944 – World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942.
- 1959 – After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask (pictured), now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.
William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros (d. 1414) · Antonio Canova (b. 1757) · Walter Payton (d. 1999)
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An emu killed by Australian soldiers
- 619 – Emperor Gaozu allowed the assassination of a khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one of the earliest events in the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks.
- 1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus" (soldier with dead emu pictured), flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
- 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
- 1959 – American intellectual Charles Van Doren caused a national scandal when he admitted that he had foreknowledge of the questions and answers when he appeared on the television quiz show Twenty-One.
Bettisia Gozzadini (d. 1261) · Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (b. 1699) · Hélène de Pourtalès (d. 1945)
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November 3: Culture Day in Japan
George II of Greece
- 1534 – The English parliament passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church of England, supplanting the pope and the Catholic Church.
- 1898 – After several months of military stalemate between French and British forces in Fashoda (now in South Sudan), the French withdrew, ending the Fashoda Incident.
- 1935 – Almost 98 percent of reported votes in a Greek referendum supported the restoration of George II (pictured) as King of the Hellenes.
- 1956 – Suez Crisis: During an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot and killed hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis.
- 1969 – U.S. president Richard Nixon made a plea for support from the "silent majority", referring to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time.
Carlo Fornasini (b. 1854) · Olav Aukrust (d. 1929) · Anna Wintour (b. 1949)
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November 4: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (2019); Flag Day in Panama
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Yitzhak Rabin
- 1780 – In the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms.
- 1791 – Northwest Indian War: In the most severe defeat ever suffered by U.S. forces at the hands of Native Americans, the Western Confederacy won a major victory at the Battle of the Wabash near present-day Fort Recovery in Ohio.
- 1912 – The keel of USS Nevada was laid down, beginning construction on the first "super-dreadnought" of the United States Navy.
- 1964 – Ayatollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK and secretly exiled to Turkey.
- 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by ultranationalist Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (d. 1576) · Shakuntala Devi (b. 1929) · Matthew McConaughey (b. 1969)
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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries (1605)
Memorial to the Morea
expedition in Nafplio
expedition in Nafplio
- 1138 – Lý Anh Tông was enthroned as Emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1828 – Greek War of Independence: the last of the Ottoman forces departed the Morea (now known as the Peloponnese) after the French Morea expedition (memorial pictured) to recapture the peninsula.
- 1943 – World War II: An unknown aircraft dropped four bombs on Vatican City, which maintained neutrality during the war.
- 1967 – A train derailed near Hither Green maintenance depot in London, killing 49 people and injuring 78 others.
- 2009 – U.S. Army major Nidal Hasan went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base, killing 13.
Mariotto Albertinelli (d. 1515) · Ida Tarbell (b. 1857) · Luis Cernuda (d. 1963)
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November 6: Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland and Sweden (1632); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland
George Eliot
- 1217 – The Charter of the Forest was issued by King Henry III of England, re-establishing the rights of access for free men to royal forests.
- 1856 – "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton", the first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by English author George Eliot (portrait shown), was submitted for publication.
- 1869 – In the first intercollegiate American football game, Rutgers College defeated the College of New Jersey 6–4 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- 1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
- 1944 – The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of Washington produced its first plutonium, with the facility later going on to create more for almost the entire American nuclear arsenal.
James Naismith (b. 1861) · Ida Barney (b. 1886) · Hilda Braid (d. 2007)
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Mass Rapid Transit train in Singapore
- 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette.
- 1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1916 – In the congressional elections, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
- 1949 – Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's first offshore oil platform.
- 1987 – Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened (train pictured), beginning with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations.
Ibn Hazm (b. 994) · Paul Sandby (d. 1809) · Ellen Stewart (b. 1919)
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Decorated Venetian glass bowl
- 1291 – A law was passed that confined most of Venice's glassmaking industry (example pictured) to nearby Murano.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The USS San Jacinto stopped the British mailship RMS Trent and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.
- 1939 – Georg Elser unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a time bomb, but killed eight people and injured sixty-two others instead.
- 1974 – British peer Lord Lucan disappeared without a trace, a day after allegedly murdering his children's nanny Sandra Rivett.
- 2006 – Israeli artillery shelled a row of houses in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, killing at least 19 Palestinians and wounding more than 40 others.
Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy (d. 1605) · Dorothea Bate (b. 1878) · Chika Kuroda (d. 1968)
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November 9: Iqbal Day in Pakistan
USS Alligator
- 1729 – Great Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Seville to end the Anglo-Spanish War, although the underlying tensions were left unresolved.
- 1822 – USS Alligator (pictured) engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
- 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly was murdered in London; she was widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper.
- 1913 – The "Big Blow" storm reached its maximum intensity in the Great Lakes Basin of North America, destroying 19 ships and 68,300 tons of cargo, and killing more than 250 people.
- 1967 – French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline first appeared in Pilote magazine.
A. P. Hill (b. 1825) · Enrico De Nicola (b. 1877) · Markus Wolf (d. 2006)
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November 10: Mawlid (Sunni Islam, 2019); Noor Hossain Day in Bangladesh (1987)
Caroll Spinney with his
Oscar the Grouch puppet
Oscar the Grouch puppet
- 1865 – Henry Wirz, the Confederate superintendent of Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks earlier, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya.
- 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street (puppeteer Caroll Spinney pictured) premiered in the United States.
- 1975 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.
- 2009 – Ships of the South Korean and North Korean navies skirmished off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
Andrés Manuel del Río (b. 1764) · Gaetano Bresci (b. 1869) · Mary Millar (d. 1998)
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November 11: Armistice Day; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations; Veterans Day in the United States
Józef Piłsudski
- 1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council convened in Rome, during which the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation was defined.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces and their Iroquois allies attacked a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.
- 1918 – Józef Piłsudski (pictured) was appointed commander-in-chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national government for the newly independent country.
- 1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngo Dinh Diem was crushed after Diem falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
- 1999 – The House of Lords Act was given royal assent, removing most hereditary peers from the British House of Lords.
Constantine VIII (d. 1028) · George S. Patton (b. 1885) · Maria Teresa de Filippis (b. 1926)
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November 12: Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2019)
Robert Falcon Scott
- 1905 – In a referendum, 79 percent of voters opted to keep Norway a monarchy, paving the way for Haakon VII to take the throne.
- 1912 – The bodies of Robert Falcon Scott (pictured) and his companions were discovered, roughly eight months after their deaths during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica.
- 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite.
- 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 collided in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 people, the deadliest such collision in history.
- 2006 – Although the Georgian government declared it illegal, South Ossetia held a referendum on independence, with more than 99 percent of voters in favour of preserving the region's status as a de facto independent state.
Zhang Jing (d. 1555) · Auguste Rodin (b. 1840) · Edward Soriano (b. 1946)
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November 13: Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Eastern Orthodoxy)
Æthelred II of England
- 1002 – King Æthelred II (depiction shown) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
- 1841 – Scottish surgeon James Braid observed a demonstration of animal magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called hypnotism.
- 1914 – Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
- 1974 – In Amityville, New York, Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed the other six members of his family, later inspiring the book The Amityville Horror and the subsequent media franchise.
- 1982 – South Korean boxer Kim Duk-koo suffered fatal brain injuries during a match with American Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, leading to significant rule changes in the sport.
Malcolm III of Scotland (d. 1093) · Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (b. 1813) · Lori Berenson (b. 1969)
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November 14: World Diabetes Day
Eugene Burton Ely taking off
from USS Birmingham
from USS Birmingham
- 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
- 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- 1952 – Al Martino's song "Here in My Heart" became the first number one on the UK Singles Chart.
- 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object Sedna.
Leopold Mozart (b. 1719) · John Lumsden (b. 1869) · Valerie Jarrett (b. 1956)
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November 15: Mawlid (Shia Islam, 2019); Republic Day in Brazil (1889)
Xi Jinping
- 565 – Justin II became Byzantine emperor, his uncle Justinian I having allegedly chosen Justin as his successor on his deathbed.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union Army General William T. Sherman began his "March to the Sea", inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
- 1922 – During a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.
- 1959 – Two men murdered a family in Holcomb, Kansas; the events became the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, a pioneering work of the true crime genre.
- 2012 – After ten years as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Hu Jintao stepped down and was replaced by Xi Jinping (pictured).
Æthelhere of East Anglia (d. 655) · Sara Josephine Baker (b. 1873) · Émile Durkheim (d. 1917)
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Battle of Cajamarca
- 1532 – Spanish conquest of Peru: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack (depiction shown) in Cajamarca, capturing the Inca emperor, Atahualpa.
- 1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
- 1944 – World War II: Operation Queen commenced with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war, attacking German targets in the Rur valley.
- 1974 – The Arecibo message, devised by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan, was transmitted towards the globular star cluster M13, carrying basic information about humanity.
Sofonisba Anguissola (d. 1625) · Kalākaua (b. 1836) · Omayra Sánchez (d. 1985)
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H. H. Holmes
- 1839 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, premiered at La Scala in Milan.
- 1894 – H. H. Holmes (pictured), one of the first modern serial killers, was arrested in Boston after killing at least nine people.
- 1978 – The television show Star Wars Holiday Special was broadcast in the United States and became notorious for its extremely negative reception.
- 2009 – Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (b. 1729) · Grace Abbott (b. 1878) · Rikard Wolff (d. 2017)
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Aftermath of the Aggie Bonfire collapse
- 1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after Otto commanded him to annul the Concordat of Worms.
- 1987 – An underground fire killed 31 people at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London.
- 1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
- 2017 – Cyclone Numa, a rare "medicane", made landfall in Greece to become the worst weather event that the country had experienced since 1977.
Philibert Commerson (b. 1727) · Rose Philippine Duchesne (d. 1852) · Wilma Mankiller (b. 1945)
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November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)
Ronald Reagan (left) and
Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva
Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva
- 1794 – The United States and Great Britain signed the Jay Treaty, the basis for ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
- 1941 – World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other in the Indian Ocean.
- 1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé scored his thousandth goal.
- 1985 – The first of five summits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.
- 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 23 people and injured at least 160 others.
Jean-Antoine Nollet (b. 1700) · James Ensor (d. 1949) · Tove Styrke (b. 1992)
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November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance; National Sovereignty Day in Argentina (1845)
Graffiti from the occupation of Alcatraz
- 1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A British naval force captured the settlement of Portobello in the Spanish Main (now in Panama).
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Lee saw the invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and the subsequent general retreat of the Continental Army.
- 1902 – While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto, sports journalist Géo Lefèvre came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that later became known as the Tour de France.
- 1969 – A group of Native American activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island (graffiti pictured) in San Francisco Bay.
- 1994 – In accordance with the Lusaka Protocol, the Angolan government signed a ceasefire with UNITA rebels in a failed attempt to end the Angolan Civil War.
Anton Rubinstein (d. 1894) · John Gardner (b. 1926) · Meredith Whitney (b. 1969)
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November 21: World Hello Day; Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
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Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
- 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, and forced King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese Second Army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.
- 1950 – Two trains collided near Valemount, Canada; the subsequent trial catapulted future prime minister John Diefenbaker into the political limelight.
- 1964 – The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (pictured), connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
- 2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.
Henry Purcell (d. 1695) · Hetty Green (b. 1834) · Victor Chang (b. 1936)
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November 22: Alphabet Day in Albania (1908)
Cairngorm Plateau
- 498 – Following the death of Anastasius II, both Symmachus and Laurentius were elected pope, causing a schism that lasted until 506.
- 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese aborigines.
- 1910 – The crews of three Brazilian warships—all commissioned only months before—and several smaller vessels mutinied against what they called the "slavery" being practiced in the Brazilian Navy.
- 1971 - In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster (location pictured), five children and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
- 1987 – Two television stations in Chicago had their broadcast signals hijacked with video and audio of an unknown person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume.
Francis Willughby (b. 1635) · Mary Boykin Chesnut (d. 1886) · Marjane Satrapi (b. 1969)
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November 23: Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan; Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2019)
Edwin Hubble
- 1733 – African slaves from Akwamu in the Danish West Indies revolted against their owners, one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas.
- 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from police custody.
- 1924 – The New York Times published evidence from Edwin Hubble (pictured) that stated the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky Way, is actually another galaxy.
- 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked, then crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125 of the 175 people on board.
- 2012 – "Il Canto degli Italiani" officially became the national anthem of Italy, 66 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the Italian Republic.
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (d. 1833) · Shangguan Yunzhu (d. 1968) · Miley Cyrus (b. 1992)
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November 24: Feast of Christ the King (Roman Catholic Church, 2019)
On the Origin of Species
- 1750 – Tarabai, former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed was her grandson, arrested as an impostor.
- 1859 – On the Origin of Species (title page pictured) by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
- 1922 – Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.
- 1943 – World War II: Following the American capture of Makin Atoll, USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175, killing 644.
- 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people.
Junípero Serra (b. 1713) · Diego Rivera (d. 1957) · Beth Phoenix (b. 1980)
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November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City (1783)
De Havilland Mosquitos
- 1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
- 1510 – Afonso de Albuquerque, the governor of Portuguese India, led an armada to conquer the city of Goa.
- 1678 – Trunajaya rebellion: After a series of difficult marches, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri in eastern Java.
- 1917 – World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.
- 1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito (examples pictured) and the Martin B-26 Marauder, two of the most successful military aircraft in World War II, both made their first flights.
Osanna of Cattaro (b. 1493) · Hermann Kolbe (d. 1884) · George Best (d. 2005)
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November 26: Feast day of Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholic Church); Constitution Day in India (1949)
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
- 1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (pictured), the longest aqueduct in Great Britain and the highest canal aqueduct in the world, opened.
- 1842 – The University of Notre Dame was founded by Rev. Edward Sorin, of the Congregation of Holy Cross, as an all-male institution in South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
- 1943 – Second World War: The British troop ship HMT Rohna was sunk in the Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe bomb, killing more than 1,100 people.
- 1983 – Six robbers broke into the Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London and stole three long tons (3,000 kilograms) of gold bullion, much of which has never been recovered.
- 2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing at least 174 people and wounding more than 300 others.
Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (b. 1678) · Marshall Taylor (b. 1878) · Fatima Massaquoi (d. 1978)
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Artist's impression of planet HD 209458 b
- 1161 – A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin dynasty ships in a naval engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
- 1835 – James Pratt and John Smith became the last people executed in England for sodomy.
- 1856 – King-Grand Duke William III unilaterally revised the constitution of Luxembourg, greatly expanding his powers.
- 1940 – The Iron Guard killed 64 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga.
- 2001 – The Hubble Space Telescope detected sodium in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458 b (artist's impression pictured), the first planetary atmosphere outside our solar system to be measured.
Charles A. Beard (b. 1874) · Jean Albert Gaudry (d. 1908) · May Gibbs (d. 1969)
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November 28: Thanksgiving in the United States (2019)
Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in Tehran
- 936 – Shi Jingtang was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
- 1895 – The first automobile race in the United States, the Chicago Times-Herald race, was held in Chicago.
- 1912 – At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin (all three pictured) met at the Tehran Conference to discuss war strategy against the Axis powers.
- 2002 – Suicide bombers blew up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, but their colleagues failed in their attempt to bring down an Arkia Israel Airlines charter flight with surface-to-air-missiles.
Esther Wheelwright (d. 1780) · `Abdu'l-Bahá (d. 1921) · Whitney Engen (b. 1987)
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Pong screenshot
- 903 – The Abbasid Caliphate captured the Qarmatian leadership in the Battle of Hama in Syria, opening the way for the reconquest of Tulunid Egypt.
- 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong, running low on water, began the killing of more than 130 African slaves by throwing them into the sea to claim insurance.
- 1847 – Oregon missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, along with about a dozen others, were killed by members of the Cayuse and Umatilla tribes, sparking the Cayuse War.
- 1972 – Atari released Pong (screenshot pictured), one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home console markets.
- 2012 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to accord non-member observer state status to Palestine.
George Brown (b. 1818) · Mary Somerville (d. 1872) · Emma Morano (b. 1899)
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November 30: Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare; Saint Andrew's Day
Model of a Turing machine
- 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great at the Battle of Narva.
- 1872 – The first international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- 1936 – English mathematician Alan Turing published details of the Turing machine (model pictured), a basic abstract symbol-manipulating hypothetical device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm.
- 1954 – The first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object took place in Sylacauga, Alabama, U.S., when a meteorite crashed through a roof and hit a sleeping woman.
- 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
- 2005 – John Sentamu (pictured) was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first black person to serve as an archbishop in the Church of England.
Richard Farrant (d. 1580) · Jagadish Chandra Bose (b. 1858) · Joan Ganz Cooney (b. 1929)
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